Slavery
The case against Project Spire
The Church of England should abandon this misleading and expensive exercise in virtue signalling
Britain should have voted against reparations
The moral and historical arguments for “reparatory justice” are bogus
The Church of England must change course
Project Spire is ideological virtue signalling based on ignorance
Slaves’ descendants don’t deserve reparations
A new book fails to make a rational or moral case for reparations
The dirty secret of the Muslim world
The neglect of the history of Islamic slavery reflects a culture of American exceptionalism and a tradition of denial
Out of step with rural Britain’s history
A clarity or stridency that fails to engage with the nuances, contexts and contingencies
The curious case of Project Spire
How could a project so contentious be within the Church Commissioners’ charitable purposes?
The ingratitude of academia
The University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent should celebrate their historic donors, not castigate them
In search of forgotten heroes
The Church has consigned to oblivion those who risked all to end the slave trade
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Fast out of the blocs
how to acquire an
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The limits of choice
Sometimes, we do know better than people who are harming themselves
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
From triple lock to price caps
Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth
Questions for the Munich hawks
It is wrong to use Neville Chamberlain as a byword for cowardice and fecklessness
Seeing colour
Donald Locke, Resistant Forms at Camden Art Centre
Strange new world
A new art history hinges on a proleptic reading of Edwardian history
Reset as usual
Labour’s problem is not messaging, presentation or leadership — it is that the party lacks the appetite for the reforms Britain demands
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
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Keir has my complete backing – Wes